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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tasty: Never closes. If you weren't looking for it, you would probably pass by it a million times without noticing it. The Tasty is less of an experience in food than an experience in sociology. Go there if you like to hang out with the Cambridge cops on their break, as well as most of late-shift Cambridge. Beware of ordering anything that looks like it's been around a while; it probably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge After Hours | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

...anyone in the nation's newsrooms stopped to wonder whether U.S. journalists weren't seizing the bait in a colossal, sinister trap, their voices were lost in the din. The feeding frenzy had begun...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrat, | Title: Just the Facts | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

...found good in people you weren't supposed to like. Look at the City Council, the School Committee. Those people are usually throwing bombs at each other!" Goode says about Cambridge's notoriously divisive city government and its late peacemaker...

Author: By Thomas J. Winston, | Title: Leonard J. Russell: 1932-1985 | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

Smith concedes that he would have been deeply disappointed if Perot had rejected GM. "We were seriously discussing buying a defunct college in Iowa, hiring scientific talent and teaching our people about data processing and electronics," Smith recalls. "With E.D.S., we weren't just buying a bumper and a fender. We were getting a running Indianapolis 500 racer at the starting line, already preparing to run away from the pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lulu Is Home Now | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...project, and questions were raised about the wisdom of funding a separate school (annual budget: $50,000) for homosexual youths. At a press conference, Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones insisted that Harvey Milk performs a valuable service. "These are dropouts. They are not just homosexuals," Quinones said. "If it weren't for this program, they would be cruising on the West Side of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay High | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

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